Watershed Research and Training Center

Analysis

Watershed Research and Training Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Hayfork, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2023, Watershed Research and Training Center reported income of $9.0m and spending of $8.8m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2023, income grew from $3.3m to $9.0m (+172%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Watershed Research and Training Center sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Knowledge Enlightens You ($9.0m), Caremessage ($9.0m) and Inlet Grove Community High School Inc ($9.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% and program service revenue 4.3% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $4.0m. At year end it held assets of $4.5m against liabilities of $2.8m, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 124 employees.